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The Smoking Gun: Turn On, Tune In, Rat Out
URL: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/leary/leary.html

Description:
This site addresses 1960s counterculture icon Timothy Leary's "work as a government informant in the early 1970s, a role detailed in FBI files recently obtained by The Smoking Gun. Jailed on narcotics charges in 1974, Leary began cooperating with FBI agents investigating his 1970 escape from a California prison." Features documents from Leary's FBI file, including excerpts from interview transcripts. From the Smoking Gun.

LII Topics: Government, Intelligence Service

Publisher:
The Smoking Gun

Extra Keywords
snitch

LII Database Information:
Record 24663 created by Maria Brandt on 10/08/2007
Last modification on 10/09/2007
Published: 10/17/2007  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/24663

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